Monday, October 06, 2008
MIT VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM LECTURE SERIES - October 6-December 1, 2008
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Monday, October 6 at 7:00 PM
"Urban Utopia?"
Pia Maria Ahlbäck, Peter Marcuse
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This cross-disciplinary lecture series includes speakers from art, architecture, urbanism and related research fields from around the world. These speakers will pose questions in order to start a discussion about imagining tomorrow’s urban “everyday life”- a topic which calls for a discourse beyond just formal disciplines.
Location:
Joan Jonas Performance Hall
MIT Visual Arts Program, Bldg N51-337, 3rd Floor
265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge (adjacent to the MIT Museum)
For more information:
web http://visualarts.mit.edu
blog http://urbanutopias.mit.edu
617-253-5229
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SPEAKERS
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Pia Maria Ahlbäck
Lecturer, Researcher in Comparative Literature,
Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Ahlbäck will examine a small number of spatial examples, urban and others, in the light of the phenomenological thought of the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. She will also make use of the concepts of the “chronotope”, which was devised by Russian literary theoretician Mikhail Bakhtin, and the “heterotopia,” conceived by the French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Her purpose in utilizing these thoughts and concepts is to facilitate a way of thinking imaginatively about climate change that is related to the Western tradition of utopias/dystopias. Ultimately, she will attempt to answers questions about the challenges this particular approach presents and its implications for current urban spatial thinking.
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Peter Marcuse
Planner; lawyer; Professor Emeritus
Urban Planning, Columbia University (NYC)
Utopias can be good (humanist) or bad (neo-liberal), achievable (the city of plenty) or unachievable (the dream city), strategic (utopias of process) or illusory (architectural fantasies). Critical approaches to planning and urban activism would incorporate the former images of utopia into meaningful programs of change. The Right to the City is an example of the effort at such a use of utopian thinking
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SPECIAL THANKS
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This lecture series is made possible by a special grant from the Office of the Dean, MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
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SERIES SCHEDULE
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September 29 at 7PM
"Imagining Communities"
Ute Meta Bauer, Director MIT Visual Arts Program; Yvonne P. Doderer, architect and urban researcher, MIT Visiting Professor in Visual Arts; Jesko Fezer, architect, collaborator with the Institute of Applied Urbanism in Berlin, Germany, and coeditor of AnArchitektur.
October 6 at 7PM
"Urban Utopia?"
Peter Marcuse, Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University, NYC; Pia Maria Ahlback, Lecturer and Researcher in Comparative literature at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Ahlback is a critic and writer whose dissertation was "Energy, Heterotopia, Dystopia. George Orwell, Michel Foucault and the Twentieth Century Environmental Imagination" (2001).
October 20 at 7PM
"The Right to the City"
Shuddhabrata Sengupta, member of Raqs Media Collective and Sarai.net, New Delhi, India, co-curator of manifesta7, Bolzano, Italy; Philippe Rekacewicz, geographer and cartographer for Le Monde Diplomatique, France and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP/Grid), Arendal, Norway.
October 27 at 7PM
"What City? Whose City?"
Regina Bittner, curator and coordinator of the Bauhaus Kolleg at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Germany; Stefano Boeri, Editor-in-Chief of Abitare, Milan, Italy, teaches at the Milan Polytechnic and is a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Italy, curator and editor of The (Un)Common Place: Art, Public Space and Urban Aesthetics in Europe.
November 3 at 7PM
"Mobile Life, Ghost Towns"
Lukas Feireiss, Berlin, Germany, curator, and editor of Architecture of Change: Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment, and visiting professor, Brown University; AbdouMaliq Simone, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmith University of London, UK.
November 17 at 7PM
"Remote Habitats"
Lucy Orta, Studio-Orta, Paris, France, and Professor for Art, Fashion and the Environment, London College of Fashion, UK; Nichlas Makris, Professor of Engeneering and Director of the MIT Laboratory of Undersea Remote Sensing; Armin Linke, photographer and film maker, Milan, Italy, and guest professor at the HFG Karlruhe, Germany.
December 1 at 7PM
"Urban Culture, Urban Agriculture"
Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén, artists, Oslo, Norway; Nikolaus Hirsch, architect, current work includes the European Kunsthalle in Cologne, United Nations Plaza (with Anton Vidokle) Berlin, Germany, and a cultural laboratory for a new residential area in Delhi, India.
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For information call 617-253-5229 or visit http://visualarts.mit.edu
Send a message to vap@mit.edu to sign up for our mailing list
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MIT Visual Arts Program
Department of Architecture
Lisa Hickler
Administrative Assistant
lhickler@mit.edu
Direct Line: (617) 324-6289
VAP Office: (617) 243-5229
Fax: (617) 253-3977
265 Massachusetts Ave., Bldg. N51-328
Cambridge, MA 02139
further information and news
http://web.mit.edu/vap/
Monday, October 6 at 7:00 PM
"Urban Utopia?"
Pia Maria Ahlbäck, Peter Marcuse
····················································································
This cross-disciplinary lecture series includes speakers from art, architecture, urbanism and related research fields from around the world. These speakers will pose questions in order to start a discussion about imagining tomorrow’s urban “everyday life”- a topic which calls for a discourse beyond just formal disciplines.
Location:
Joan Jonas Performance Hall
MIT Visual Arts Program, Bldg N51-337, 3rd Floor
265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge (adjacent to the MIT Museum)
For more information:
web http://visualarts.mit.edu
blog http://urbanutopias.mit.edu
617-253-5229
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SPEAKERS
····················································································
Pia Maria Ahlbäck
Lecturer, Researcher in Comparative Literature,
Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Ahlbäck will examine a small number of spatial examples, urban and others, in the light of the phenomenological thought of the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. She will also make use of the concepts of the “chronotope”, which was devised by Russian literary theoretician Mikhail Bakhtin, and the “heterotopia,” conceived by the French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Her purpose in utilizing these thoughts and concepts is to facilitate a way of thinking imaginatively about climate change that is related to the Western tradition of utopias/dystopias. Ultimately, she will attempt to answers questions about the challenges this particular approach presents and its implications for current urban spatial thinking.
·····
Peter Marcuse
Planner; lawyer; Professor Emeritus
Urban Planning, Columbia University (NYC)
Utopias can be good (humanist) or bad (neo-liberal), achievable (the city of plenty) or unachievable (the dream city), strategic (utopias of process) or illusory (architectural fantasies). Critical approaches to planning and urban activism would incorporate the former images of utopia into meaningful programs of change. The Right to the City is an example of the effort at such a use of utopian thinking
····················································································
SPECIAL THANKS
····················································································
This lecture series is made possible by a special grant from the Office of the Dean, MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
····················································································
SERIES SCHEDULE
····················································································
September 29 at 7PM
"Imagining Communities"
Ute Meta Bauer, Director MIT Visual Arts Program; Yvonne P. Doderer, architect and urban researcher, MIT Visiting Professor in Visual Arts; Jesko Fezer, architect, collaborator with the Institute of Applied Urbanism in Berlin, Germany, and coeditor of AnArchitektur.
October 6 at 7PM
"Urban Utopia?"
Peter Marcuse, Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University, NYC; Pia Maria Ahlback, Lecturer and Researcher in Comparative literature at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Ahlback is a critic and writer whose dissertation was "Energy, Heterotopia, Dystopia. George Orwell, Michel Foucault and the Twentieth Century Environmental Imagination" (2001).
October 20 at 7PM
"The Right to the City"
Shuddhabrata Sengupta, member of Raqs Media Collective and Sarai.net, New Delhi, India, co-curator of manifesta7, Bolzano, Italy; Philippe Rekacewicz, geographer and cartographer for Le Monde Diplomatique, France and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP/Grid), Arendal, Norway.
October 27 at 7PM
"What City? Whose City?"
Regina Bittner, curator and coordinator of the Bauhaus Kolleg at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Germany; Stefano Boeri, Editor-in-Chief of Abitare, Milan, Italy, teaches at the Milan Polytechnic and is a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Italy, curator and editor of The (Un)Common Place: Art, Public Space and Urban Aesthetics in Europe.
November 3 at 7PM
"Mobile Life, Ghost Towns"
Lukas Feireiss, Berlin, Germany, curator, and editor of Architecture of Change: Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment, and visiting professor, Brown University; AbdouMaliq Simone, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmith University of London, UK.
November 17 at 7PM
"Remote Habitats"
Lucy Orta, Studio-Orta, Paris, France, and Professor for Art, Fashion and the Environment, London College of Fashion, UK; Nichlas Makris, Professor of Engeneering and Director of the MIT Laboratory of Undersea Remote Sensing; Armin Linke, photographer and film maker, Milan, Italy, and guest professor at the HFG Karlruhe, Germany.
December 1 at 7PM
"Urban Culture, Urban Agriculture"
Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén, artists, Oslo, Norway; Nikolaus Hirsch, architect, current work includes the European Kunsthalle in Cologne, United Nations Plaza (with Anton Vidokle) Berlin, Germany, and a cultural laboratory for a new residential area in Delhi, India.
····················································································
For information call 617-253-5229 or visit http://visualarts.mit.edu
Send a message to vap@mit.edu to sign up for our mailing list
If you do not want to receive information from the MIT Visual Arts Program, please write an e-mail with subject "Unsubscribe" to vap@mit.edu
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
MIT Visual Arts Program
Department of Architecture
Lisa Hickler
Administrative Assistant
lhickler@mit.edu
Direct Line: (617) 324-6289
VAP Office: (617) 243-5229
Fax: (617) 253-3977
265 Massachusetts Ave., Bldg. N51-328
Cambridge, MA 02139
further information and news
http://web.mit.edu/vap/
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